Lunar Beauty Shot

  • Released Monday, November 1, 2004
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This is a beauty shot animation flying over the surface of the moon created in support of a series of live interviews about the 2004 lunar eclipse.
Scales are not accurate in this visualization. The Earth is about 3 times larger than it would actually appear. The source of the moon texture is unknown; it is thought to be a composite from several missions. The Earth texture was captured as the Galileo spacecraft swung by the Earth in 1990 for a gravity assist on its way to Jupiter.

Lunar beauty shot

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Monday, November 1, 2004.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.

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